LANJIGARH: Celebrating International Women’s Week, Vedanta Ltd. had organised a ‘Women-Meet’ at Lanjigarh in partnership with Mahashakti Foundation. The program saw a massive participation of over 1500 women members across all associations, SHGs, ASHA, Anganwadi members and intellectuals from the region.
The dignitaries laid emphasis upon the contribution of women towards development of the community. Education and Awareness, Health and Cleanliness, safety, and economic development of the women were highlighted to be a key necessities for development of the society. To strive for an alcohol addiction-free culture was emphasized during the program.
Present on the occasion were Jugaleswari Das, Asst. Project Director, DRDA-Kalahandi, Subhrajita Mohanty, Asst. Collector – Kalahandi, Basanti Shetty, Asst. Collector, Kalahandi, Kumudini Mishra, DPMU, Gitanjali Sa, D.P.O., Shukla Chakraborty – Principal, DAV VIS, Jalaj Malpani, CFO –Vedanta Lanjigarh, Mahendra Raut – Head HR, Vedanta Lanjigarh, Harmeet Sehra – Head CSR – Vedanta Lanjigarh, Tulasi Naik – Vice Chairman- Lanjigarh Block, Mani Majhi – Sarpanch- Lanjigarh, Kusum Manjari Praharaj – C.D.P.O. – Lanjigarh Block, Malay Kumar Meher, DDM NABARD, Manoj Kumar Patra, D.P.M. – O.L.M., Sridhar Pesnia – President, Lanjigarh Bikash Parishad, Sanjay Kumar Mandal, IIC – Lanjigarh Police station, Jugal Kishore Pattnayak – MD, Mahashakti Foundation along with other key opinion makers and officials from Vedanta and partner agency Mahashakti Foundation.
The guests inaugurated a few small local industries in addition to the Kalahandi – Kankeri – Dhokra project by Vedanta. The program was coordinated by Jogananda Behera, Secretary – Mahashakti Foundation.
